The Life of Hexle

A short history of the hexle project

The first code for hexle was written on the 25th of May 2024. I wrote that first prototype because I wanted to explore some of the techniques that another word puzzle by the name of squaredle was using. I knew that squaredle had a much more human touch, and frankly I did not expect that a purely algorithmic approach would ever compete with squaredle in terms of puzzle quality, but that was fine becayse at the time there was no intention of letting anyone actually play it.